This was another fun week in the Maker Shed. We started off with our How-to Tuesday: Arduino 101 the button. These Arduino tutorials are getting a lot of positive feedback. Look for a lot more Arduino tutorials in the next few weeks. Next, I opened up my Designing Automata Kit and checked out what was […]
Later this week I will have a detailed build and video of the Aurorarium kit from the Maker Shed. It looks like a cool kit that I should be able to hack or modify to make it even more unique. The Aurorarium is another kit made by Gakken, so my expectations are high. Create your […]
Dude Craft, a blog dedicated to sharing a male perspective on all things crafty, has a new guest blogger who’s bringing a parenting perspective to readers. Jon Davies explains in his first post that while he knew he had the “dad” part down, he started to flounder a bit when it came to the “craft” […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member wayn3w cooked up the Cupcake Atari Punk Console with detachable photoresistor control – apparently capable of producing “nasty results”. Hmmm, looks innocent enough from this pic – Cupcake APC This one was built using a kit from GetLoFi – who, by the way, just posted a nice collection […]
Registration opens today for the Art and Code symposium — it’s a low-key conference teaching a variety of tools specially developed for use in the arts and education to artists, young people, and everyone else. Among the presenters will be many of the people behind these tools, including the creators of Processing — the software […]
I received a lot of positive responses from my last “In the Maker Shed” video, so I decided to do another. This time it’s the Mignonette, a fun, easy to solder game system. You can pick one up in the Maker shed. http://www.makershed.com
A few weeks ago some of the parents at the local grammar school asked me where they could find cool projects to build for the science fair. I pointed them to the MAKE blog of course! We have tons of posts that are tagged “Kids” & “Science” that are great for inspiration. It’s a few […]
